Lostprophets News

Ian Watkins, the former lead singer for alternative rockers Lostprophets, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison folowing a slew of sex offenses, including attempting to rape a baby. He'll be released after 29 years, which will be followed by another six years "on licence," meaning there will be several conditions of his release that he'll have to comply with.

The 36-year-old singer was sentenced in Cardiff Crown Court in Wales on Wednesday for carrying out "sickening and incomprehensible" acts of child abuse, according to the judge, Mr. Justice Royce.

Britain's police watchdog group has launched an official investigation into claims cops in Wales ignored warnings from Ian Watkins' ex-girlfriend about his desire to abuse children.

The Lostprophets frontman appeared in court in Cardiff, Wales on Tuesday for the first day of his trial and pleaded guilty to a number of sickening child sex charges including attempting to rape a baby.

Watkins' former girlfriend has now spoken out in the aftermath of the Welsh singer's shocking admissions, claiming she notified South Wales Police of his perverted sexual appetites back in 2008.

For the most part Weapons is a record you’d expect from Lostprophets; not exactly safe, but more familiar if anything. By this point in their career, 15 years and five albums, it’s clear this band is very comfortable in their own skin, and are adept at playing to their strengths like putting to wax, a record in Weapons comprised of a heaping helping of pristine radio ready rock tunes brimming with huge choruses and anthemic vocals that make it near impossible to not sing-a-long, cuts here served up in spades (“Another Shot,” “Jesus Walks,” “A Little Reminder That I’ll Never Forget”). Weapon...

The Welsh rock band Lostprophets will return to the states in late August to begin a series of tour dates including headline club and theater gigs as well as an ongoing slot on the Finnish quintet HIM's "No Sleep Till Halloween" Tour beginning October 18.

The Lostprophets' latest North American tour comes in celebration of Liberation Transmission. Liberation Transmission entered the Billboard Top 200 bestselling albums chart at #33, mirroring the U.S. debut (also #33 in the Top 200) of Start Something in February 2004.

Finnish quintet HIM announce their fall 2006 tour in support of their highly acclaimed Sire Records release, "Dark Light." The first leg of the No Sleep Till Halloween tour kicks off October 18 in Lowell, Massachusetts, with Papa Roach, Lostprophets, Kill Hannah, and ends on Halloween in Los Angeles, California (see dates below).

On this upcoming tour, the band will reach half a million copies of 2005's "Dark Light," making HIM the first Finnish band to go gold in the U.S. The album debuted in the Top 20 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart and has so far spawned two major hits, "Wings of a Bu...